2022 Cowboys Free Agency Thread

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Genghis Khan said:
Yep, especially last season. One of the worst Super Bowl winners ever.
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I don't know about that. They answered pretty much every call including beating the Bucs and 49ers each twice. The only teams they didn't beat all last year were the Packers and Titans.

Yeah there were some close playoff games between the 49ers, Dallas, Green Bay, Tampa, and LA, but LA came out on top more often and I think they'd have beaten that Packers team that couldn't move the ball when the defense took away Devante Adams.

If anything the Rams' emerging on top of a loaded NFC is even more impressive.

I still didn't think the 49ers were the better team in either 1994 or 1981, but at some point you've just got to respect what the regular season records and playoff process tell you.
 
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ravidubey said:
I don't know about that. They answered pretty much every call including beating the Bucs and 49ers each twice. The only teams they didn't beat all last year were the Packers and Titans.

Yeah there were some close playoff games between the 49ers, Dallas, Green Bay, Tampa, and LA, but LA came out on top more often and I think they'd have beaten that Packers team that couldn't move the ball when the defense took away Devante Adams.

If anything the Rams' emerging on top of a loaded NFC is even more impressive.

I still didn't think the 49ers were the better team in either 1994 or 1981, but at some point you've just got to respect what the regular season records and playoff process tell you.
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The NFC was not loaded this past season. There weren't any great teams.

Which makes our failure even more disappointing. It was wide open last season.

I don't think the 2021 Rams would have beaten very many of the past super bowl winners.
 
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ravidubey said:
I think as a group they will continue to improve.
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Not only is that not a sure thing (which is what you originally said), I don't think "as a group" is a meaningful way to look at it.

Just because Parsons might improve doesn't mean anything for Joseph or Wright or Osa or Ball or anyone else in that class.
 
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Genghis Khan said:
Not only is that not a sure thing (which is what you originally said), I don't think "as a group" is a meaningful way to look at it.

Just because Parsons might improve doesn't mean anything for Joseph or Wright or Osa or Ball or anyone else in that class.
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Yeah I mean theoretically a rookie should get better in his second year. The year of experience should make them better. But some guys just are what they are. They may improve but it's so marginal that it doesn't matter. Now guys who actually played last year, I do expect most of them will improve. Golston, Osa, Parsons those guys I expect to get better. Someone like Wright might get better but still suck. So the improvement doesn't matter. And who knows on Joseph. He has to put in work to actually improve.
 
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Yeah I mean theoretically a rookie should get better in his second year. The year of experience should make them better. But some guys just are what they are. They may improve but it's so marginal that it doesn't matter. Now guys who actually played last year, I do expect most of them will improve. Golston, Osa, Parsons those guys I expect to get better. Someone like Wright might get better but still suck. So the improvement doesn't matter. And who knows on Joseph. He has to put in work to actually improve.
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Correct, rookies, regardless of the skill level, should get at least marginally better their second year. Maybe some improve more than marginally.

Marginal improvement over 7 players will always be more than the same over 3-4 players.

In a normal 7 pick draft, if you got Golston, Osa, and Parsons playing well into next year as you describe you'd be good with that.

But we now have a situation with 7 rookie defenders, all who made the team (most competed for a chance to start no less), all remained on the roster heading into year two, and also have a coach like Quinn to bring them all along together.
 
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Cowboysrock55 said:
It's like he doesn't get the concept that if you fall short you actually need to get better.
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I don't know if they honestly believe that, or they just find ways to deflect and pump sunshine much like Jason Garrett did for all of his awful decisions and gameday failures.

No matter how egregious Jason Garrett's decisions were in a bad loss, he would always find a way to never directly address that issue and/or make some general statement of how the "team" and "staff" win and lose together as opposed to admitting he made a mistake.

Hell, most of the time he wouldn't even acknowledge the blunder not then to defend himself.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, maybe the Jones' truly are that clueless and believe the BS they say or maybe they actually are aware that they're not totally sure on how to build a successful team....but they also know they are never going to go to the outside for help so they work on coming up with responses that make it seem like there's a rhyme and reason to what they do when anyone with half a brain knows that there really isn't.
 
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